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Simms Taback

Simms Taback was an American writer, graphic artist, and illustrator of more than 35 books. He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

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Lydia Lukidis

Lydia Lukidis is an award-winning author of 50+ trade and educational books for children. Her titles include UP, UP HIGH: The Secret Poetry of Earth's Atmosphere (Capstone, 2025), DANCING THROUGH SPACE: Dr. Mae Jemison Soars to New Heights (Albert Whitman, 2024), and DEEP, DEEP, DOWN: The Secret Underwater Poetry of the Mariana Trench (Capstone, 2023) which was a Crystal Kite winner for the Canada and North America division, Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Honor, a Cybils Award nominee, and winner of the Dogwood Readers Award. A science enthusiast from a young age, Lydia now incorporates her studies in science and her everlasting curiosity into her books.

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Meghan Wilson Duff

As a kid, Meghan was Eloise if she had no Nanny and grew up living on a dirt road in a small town instead of at The Plaza. They drove adults up the wall by asking a million questions, and they were holding back. In high school and college, they wore a yellow Sony walkman to ward off unplanned conversations just in case people had the temerity to ignore that they were reading.

Meghan wanted to be a marine biologist for a long time, but somewhere along the way they got distracted by trying to figure out people and decided to study them. A clinical psychologist by training, they full time in the Psychology & Community Studies program at University of Maine at Machias and for the University of Maine's Mental Health & Rehabilitation minor.

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Kirin Hayashi

Kirin Hayashi is the author of multiple picture books published in Japan. She writes poetry, picture books, translation works, and lyrics, including the children’s book Nibanme No Warumono, which won the 2022 Grand Prix of the Librarians’ Awards hosted by Nippan. Her works are also popular in China, Korea, and Taiwan. She and Chiaki Okada also collaborated on the picture book Akari (Light).

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Kirsten Hall

Kirsten is a native New Yorker. After college, where she majored in English and minored in Child Development, Hall taught preschool and then Kindergarten while studying Early Childhood Education in NYU’s masters program. Her first easy reader book was written (and published) when she was in the 7th grade. Since then she has written approximately 150 early reader and chapter books for children, on a broad range of topics, for publishers including Scholastic, HarperCollins, Barnes & Noble, Random House, and Chronicle.
In addition to writing, Hall operates her own boutique illustration and literary agency, Catbird Productions. Hall currently resides in New York City.

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Marzieh Abbas

Marzieh Abbas
Author bio: Marzieh is an award-winning author. Raised between the bustling cities of Dubai, U.A.E and Karachi, Pakistan, Marzieh loves traveling, reading and samosas. She is a member of SCBWI, 12x12, and a graduate of the Lyrical Language Lab, Children's Book Academy, and Storyteller Academy. She loves teaching fellow creatives and has conducted several classes online for writers. She is active on Twitter, Blue sky, and Threads where she continues to form connections with the Writing Community, runs a kidlit review group on Facebook and blogs about her author journey and life in Pakistan on Instagram. Marzieh dreams of owning a talking parrot someday. But, until then, she lives in Pakistan with her husband and children who in

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Meera Sriram

Meera Sriram draws from her life straddling the East and West to tell stories. She is an award-winning author of several picture books including A GIFT FOR AMMA, DUMPLING DAY, A GARDEN IN MY HANDS, and THE SPICE BOX. Her books have been selected Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, APALA (Asian Pacific American Librarians Association), and Bank Street College, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus, SLJ, and Publishers Weekly. Her work has been included in several state reading lists, featured in The New York Times, and has been translated into many different languages. Meera loves woodsy hikes and urban murals, and lives with her family in Berkeley, California. For more information, please visit: http://www.meerasriram.c

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Avani Dwivedi

Avani Dwivedi is an author and illustrator living in Jersey City, NJ. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a B.F.A in Illustration. Avani grew up in Mumbai, India and later moved to the States to pursue her passion of becoming an artist. Even when away from home, she held on to her most precious gems — memories of her sweet childhood, the lived experience of being a South-Asian woman and her love for creating whimsical art. She aims to paint stories and illustrations through which she can share a more diverse perspective of the world.

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J.F. Fox

As a writer, my passion is creating children's books with a funny, slightly nerdy bent. I love introverts, underdogs, and antiheros, as well as stories for boys that speak to their interests without ignoring their emotions. I'm an ardent advocate for school librarians and grew up loving libraries in south eastern Virginia. I live in Brooklyn and upstate New York with my husband and two sons.

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Stephanie Wildman

Stephanie Wildman also writes as Stephanie M. Wildman.

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Rosanne L. Kurstedt

Rosanne L. Kurstedt, Ph.D., loves picture books and sharing her love of story with children and families.

She's the author of several books for children—Karate Kid (Running Press Kids, 2019), And I Think About You (Kids Can Press, 2022), and Sticks vs. Stones (Worthy Kids, spring 2024) as well as books for teachers.

She's been an educator for over 30 years, supporting learners of all ages. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and her adorable new puppy Sadie.

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Nathan Christopher

Nathan Christopher is a former child and aspiring adult who enjoys spreadsheets and—perhaps more useful to his writing aspirations—making people laugh. He pens his stories (and his letters to Santa) in Windsor, Canada, where he lives with his wife and children—who ensure endless material and a conveniently sleepless schedule for writing.

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Kimberly Lee

Kimberly Lee is the award-winning author of BOYS DON’T FRY (Freeman Book Awards 2023 (Honorable Mention); Crystal Kite Awards 2024 (Honor)) and the co-author of WHAT IF?. She is also the Managing Editor of parenting platform makchic.com, a lawyer, and was named one of Tatler Gen T. List 2023’s Leaders of Tomorrow in Asia.

Kimberly is a firm believer in the power of stories to create change, and in the right of every child to have their voice heard. She lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with husband and their two young sons. When she isn't busy writing, or navigating life with her family, Kimberly can often be found singing, stress baking, and covertly consuming her own baked goods.

Find out more about her online at www.kimberlyleebooks.com,

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Toni Collier

Toni Collier is the founder of a global women’s organization called Broken Crayons Still Color and helps women process through brokenness and get to healing and hope. Toni is a speaker, host of the Still Coloring podcast, and author of several books: Don't Try This Alone, Brave Enough to be Broken, and a children's book, Broken Crayons Still Color. Toni is teaching people all over the globe that you can be broken and still worthy, or feel unqualified and still be called to do great things.

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Zainab Khan

Zainab is a member of SCBWI, Inked Voices, and is a critique ninja for 12x12. As a Muslim woman of Pakistani heritage who has lived in different parts of the world, she writes diverse stories that promote empathy, kindness and unity between children of all faiths and cultures.

NOURA’S CRESCENT MOON will be published by Candlewick in 2024. Zainab is donating part of her proceeds to GIVELIGHT. ORG. This organization cares for and educates orphans in ten different countries.

Currently, Zainab lives in Manhasset with her husband, two kids and cat.

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Korey Watari

Korey is a sansei, or third-generation Japanese American, born and raised in Los Angeles. She played basketball for a Japanese American league, graduated from the University of California, Riverside and studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Korey has worked in the animation and fashion industries for companies such as Disney and the Gap. I Am Able to Shine is her first picture book.

She is married to Mike Wu, the author and illustrator of the acclaimed, bestselling Ellie series, the first picture book of which was named one of NPR’s best books of the year. He is also a Pixar artist and has worked on films including The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Toy Story 3, Coco, and Soul.

They live in the San Francisco Bay area in

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Kelsey E. Gross

Kelsey E. Gross grew up in Wisconsin and lived in New Mexico and California before returning to the Midwest. She now lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula with her partner, son, and silly, snow-loving pup. When she's not writing, she looks for owls and other forest friends while hiking and skiing in the woods. Kelsey strives to write books that inspire kids – and grown-ups – to take care of one another and the natural world. Find her online at kelseyegross.com

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Jyoti Rajan Gopal

Jyoti Rajan Gopal is a writer, mom and Kindergarten teacher. Growing up, she lived in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, India and China. She now lives in New York, in a quirky old Victorian in Yonkers, with her husband, where they raised their two daughters. Her favorite place in the house is the wrap around porch where she loves to gather with family or friends, read, write and drink coffee.

Jyoti writes stories that speak to her heart, that reflect her multiple identities, that she wishes her daughters had growing up, that she wishes her students had now.
When not writing or teaching, she loves to read - a lot! - work in her garden, dance and explore the many New York State Park trails.

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Kari Ann Gonzalez

Kari Ann Gonzalez is an award-winning writer of children's fiction and informational fiction with a heaping helping of humor and STEAM concepts. When she is not regaling her family with tall tales or creating colorful characters for her stories, you will find her reading voraciously. Two cats and six chickens are kind enough to share their home with Kari and her family in California. To learn more about Kari visit https://www.karianngonzalez.com.

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Nadia Salomon

Nadia Salomon is a #PitMad Success Story and award-winning author of acclaimed title, A VOICE OF HOPE. It has won a SCBWI Crystal Kite Honor Award, the 2025 BACALA, SLJ Children & Youth Literary Award for non-fiction, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award, and earned two starred reviews. It's the first picture book biography about activist, Myrlie Evers-Williams. Her award-winning debut, GOODNIGHT GANESHA, is also a Bank Street Best Book and ALSC DIA Selection. Her third picture book, A RAKHI FOR RAKESH, released with HarperCollins (Versify).

Book Bub: https://bit.ly/3wXtzcT
Nadia's Nook Newsletter: https://nadiasalomon.substack.com

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Safa Suleiman

Safa Suleiman is a Palestinian American educator with more than twenty years of experience in undergraduate and elementary school pedagogy. She now focuses on writing and teaching through storytelling centering the Palestinian and the American Muslim communities. Her debut picture book Hilwa’s Gifts will be released by Candlewick Press in Spring 2025. She lives with her family in Colorado on the homeland of the Ute Nation.

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Lydia Lukidis

Lydia Lukidis is an award-winning author of 50+ trade and educational books for children. Her titles include UP, UP HIGH: The Secret Poetry of Earth's Atmosphere (Capstone, 2025), DANCING THROUGH SPACE: Dr. Mae Jemison Soars to New Heights (Albert Whitman, 2024), and DEEP, DEEP, DOWN: The Secret Underwater Poetry of the Mariana Trench (Capstone, 2023) which was a Crystal Kite winner for the Canada and North America division, Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Honor, a Cybils Award nominee, and winner of the Dogwood Readers Award. A science enthusiast from a young age, Lydia now incorporates her studies in science and her everlasting curiosity into her books.

Lydia is very involved in the kidlit community. She volunteers as a judge on Rat

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Bonnie Kelso

Bonnie is an author, illustrator, and art facilitator living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the mother of two young boys, whom she credits for endless inspiration during the creation of her books.

Bonnie studied Fine Art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. While she completed her BFA she also worked as a teacher assistant for the RISD Printmaking Department, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, The Boston Children’s Museum, and United Cerebral Palsy.

After college, Bonnie began a twelve-year career as an Exhibit Designer, Design Director, and Independent Contractor. She designed visitor centers and museum exhibits for high-profile organizations such as The Smithsonian Institution, N

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Nathan Christopher

Nathan Christopher is a former child and aspiring adult who enjoys spreadsheets and—perhaps more useful to his writing aspirations—making people laugh. He pens his stories (and his letters to Santa) in Windsor, Canada, where he lives with his wife and children—who ensure endless material and a conveniently sleepless schedule for writing.

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Nadia Salomon

Nadia Salomon is a #PitMad Success Story and award-winning author of acclaimed title, A VOICE OF HOPE. It has won a SCBWI Crystal Kite Honor Award, the 2025 BACALA, SLJ Children & Youth Literary Award for non-fiction, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award, and earned two starred reviews. It's the first picture book biography about activist, Myrlie Evers-Williams. Her award-winning debut, GOODNIGHT GANESHA, is also a Bank Street Best Book and ALSC DIA Selection. Her third picture book, A RAKHI FOR RAKESH, released with HarperCollins (Versify).

Book Bub: https://bit.ly/3wXtzcT
Nadia's Nook Newsletter: https://nadiasalomon.substack.com

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Marzieh Abbas

Marzieh Abbas
Author bio: Marzieh is an award-winning author. Raised between the bustling cities of Dubai, U.A.E and Karachi, Pakistan, Marzieh loves traveling, reading and samosas. She is a member of SCBWI, 12x12, and a graduate of the Lyrical Language Lab, Children's Book Academy, and Storyteller Academy. She loves teaching fellow creatives and has conducted several classes online for writers. She is active on Twitter, Blue sky, and Threads where she continues to form connections with the Writing Community, runs a kidlit review group on Facebook and blogs about her author journey and life in Pakistan on Instagram. Marzieh dreams of owning a talking parrot someday. But, until then, she lives in Pakistan with her husband and children who in

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Jyoti Rajan Gopal

Jyoti Rajan Gopal is a writer, mom and Kindergarten teacher. Growing up, she lived in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, India and China. She now lives in New York, in a quirky old Victorian in Yonkers, with her husband, where they raised their two daughters. Her favorite place in the house is the wrap around porch where she loves to gather with family or friends, read, write and drink coffee.

Jyoti writes stories that speak to her heart, that reflect her multiple identities, that she wishes her daughters had growing up, that she wishes her students had now.
When not writing or teaching, she loves to read - a lot! - work in her garden, dance and explore the many New York State Park trails.

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Kimberly Lee

Kimberly Lee is the award-winning author of BOYS DON’T FRY (Freeman Book Awards 2023 (Honorable Mention); Crystal Kite Awards 2024 (Honor)) and the co-author of WHAT IF?. She is also the Managing Editor of parenting platform makchic.com, a lawyer, and was named one of Tatler Gen T. List 2023’s Leaders of Tomorrow in Asia.

Kimberly is a firm believer in the power of stories to create change, and in the right of every child to have their voice heard. She lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with husband and their two young sons. When she isn't busy writing, or navigating life with her family, Kimberly can often be found singing, stress baking, and covertly consuming her own baked goods.

Find out more about her online at www.kimberlyleebooks.com,

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Kari Ann Gonzalez

Kari Ann Gonzalez is an award-winning writer of children's fiction and informational fiction with a heaping helping of humor and STEAM concepts. When she is not regaling her family with tall tales or creating colorful characters for her stories, you will find her reading voraciously. Two cats and six chickens are kind enough to share their home with Kari and her family in California. To learn more about Kari visit https://www.karianngonzalez.com.

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Bonnie Kelso

Bonnie is an author, illustrator, and art facilitator living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the mother of two young boys, whom she credits for endless inspiration during the creation of her books.

Bonnie studied Fine Art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. While she completed her BFA she also worked as a teacher assistant for the RISD Printmaking Department, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, The Boston Children’s Museum, and United Cerebral Palsy.

After college, Bonnie began a twelve-year career as an Exhibit Designer, Design Director, and Independent Contractor. She designed visitor centers and museum exhibits for high-profile organizations such as The Smithsonian Institution, N

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Marit Larsen

Marit Larsen is a Norwegian songwriter and musician. Agnes's Place, her debut picture book, was first published in Norway and will also be published in Denmark and Italy. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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Refiloe Moahloli

Refiloe Moahloli grew up in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. As aunt to many nieces and nephews who consider her to be ‘one of them’ due to her modest height, life with them inspires a number of stories floating in her head at any given time. Refiloe plays hockey, is a keen Instagrammer 'refiloemoahloli' and a full-time couch coach of South Africa’s cricket teams.

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Dee Leone

Dee Leone is the author of Dough Knights and Dragons (Sterling), Nature's Lullaby Fills the Night (Sterling), and Bizz & Buzz Make Honey Buns (Penguin). To view a book trailer for each book and to download free activity kits, visit http://deeleone.com.

The author taught at the elementary level and tutored college math. She loves writing for children, parents, and teachers. She is busy creating easy readers, picture books, a middle grade novel, silly verse, non-fiction projects, and screenplays.

In addition, she has written several reproducible books for the educational market, covering themes such as science, language arts, and holidays. She has also created more than 100 stories, poems, puzzles, and plays for children's magazines. You can f

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